skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the ambition of this, and it has the potential to grow into something both useful and cash flow positive. Having a community of open schematics and layouts will be wonderful.

Does the layout editor support design rule settings/verification--things like clearance around traces and vias, via diameter, etc.?

An awesome feature would be a way to pull up a datasheet for a part by clicking on it in either the schematic or layout views. When I work on a project, I usually keep a paper binder of datasheets for quick reference. Having everything one or two clicks away would be great.

Using the Octopart API to build a BOM broken down by best vendor, per-part, would be cool too.

It wasn't clear when I tried using the site: Will it give me gerber files I can send to a fab? What about a completed board rendering a la OSH Park[1]?

Any plans to support components/footprints/libraries/whatever you want to call them from KiCAD or Eagle? Orcad? Altium?

Any plans to hook up with a fab, and panelize orders to optimize for low cost boards?

1. http://oshpark.com/
Geddy added a ton of stuff for this release:

- Brand new Web site with extensive docs

- Removed models from geddy core, moved into Model project

- Removed utilities from geddy core, moved into Utilities project

- Removed router from geddy core, replaced with Barista

- Added view helpers

- Added model as a dependency

- Added utilities as a dependency

- Added barista as a dependency

- Added the geddy console command for CLI access to apps

- Added the geddy jake command to run Jake tasks in the app environment

- Added a ton of tests

- Fixed a ton of bugs
Is it just me or is the prismatic blog text being cut off on the side? https://twitter.com/blaines/status/256545302926995456/photo/...
To do: sign up for this, hook it up to a webcam, point it at the sky, and try to do face detection on clouds.
Everybody wanna be Michaelangelo, don't nobody wanna bust rocks.
The Colorfly CT131 Tiny is a 13.3 inch tablet with quad-core CPU
Interestingly they don't seem to want to own the whole phenomenon. Which could be a good thing for what they want to achieve. They want to focus on creative projects over being a platform to fund anything or a store with little accountability.
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I think we need more open source projects that are not open to contribution from anyone

That was perhaps the best unintentional laugh I had today.
Power Rows = Extensible Records + Variants
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Yahoo is hiring Android Developers (yahoo.com)
I don't write the tests. It takes to long when I'm exploring a problem space, but I do write or at least think about test conditions and what it would take to satisfy them.

I find that if I can't easily imagine how I would create a test for the code I'm currently banging on, I don't have enough encapsulation yet to arrive at a workable solution.
That's the best kind of sales pitch. Don't sell it. Just show it. People who want it will be grateful not to have it pushed at them, and people who don't want it will watch it and share it with others, and those other people might want it.
It does store the web page content. Among other reasons, it gets around paywalls, logins, etc. by uploading the page when you click your bookmarklet.
I don't think there's a service like that, but let's attempt to talk through who could potentially use it to figure out if there's a market.

1) Would a developer who is part of a workforce in a company where there are other developers use this? Chances are, probably not - he has coworkers whom he could ask to help him work through a problem. This is more efficient than hiring outside help - his coworkers probably understand the codebase and the problem domain much better than he does.

2) Would a student developer in a school use this for his schoolwork? Chances are, probably not. Schools usually have tutors, and the instructor is usually available. Also, students are usually low on money to pay for services like this.

3) It sounds like you are what I call a "lone-wolf developer". You consult for projects as your main source of income for companies that don't have on-staff technical talent (otherwise you'd ask them), or are a single founder working on your own project (or, if you have cofounders they are completely non-technical). You would definitely use this service. How many people are there like this?

The reason why your post caught my eye is because I often find myself in the "mentor" role that you are describing, and have often wondered that question myself.
Outstanding. I was going to try to contact you privately and beg for advice on how to run something similar.

My hats so far off to you guys, it's on the floor in front of me. Can't wait for my Lockitron to arrive.
It's unfortunate to see Chris posted this without mentioning anything to Filepicker first.

That said, it's a pretty obvious problem which is inherent in the way Filepicker is doing things right now. Simple sometimes comes at the expense of secure. I'd argue that they made a fairly reasonable trade-off for the time.

Good to see Brett and the team are responding quickly.
Looking around your apartment for something to pawn for food money.
Happens on the iPhone to everyone, I think.
Huge diamond planet found, twice the size of Earth
i'm loving it
It bothers me more that they don't know user interface is two words.
Expanded for ecosystem firsts beyond Twitterrific:

http://blog.140proof.com/post/30593225507/twitter-features-i...
Clever (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to hack education
Clever (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to hack education

Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (https://getclever.com) is building the data platform needed to for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

Clever is backed by top-tier investors, and we’re lucky enough to have the financial freedom to build the company we’ve always wanted to work for. We get up to work every day knowing we’re working to improve education for millions of kids. It’s a cool job perk, way better than free meals (though we have those too).

In just a few months, over 1,000 schools have come to count on Clever every day. Our growth has created some exciting problems around scalable systems, innovative APIs, and big data sets. We're looking to add a versatile engineer to the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges.

Things we're looking for:

+ Experience with consuming and/or creating RESTful Hypermedia APIs

+ Experience with a variety of languages (we use the best tool for the job, everything from Node.js to bash scripts)

+ Experience scaling up systems including AWS & MongoDB

+ Passion for changing education

What Clever offers:

+ A chance to revolutionize education

+ Competitive salary + significant equity stake in well-funded company (funding hasn’t been announced, but just ask if you’re curious)

+ Flat & close-knit engineering team with lots of peer code review & pair programming

+ Great benefits - healthcare, dental, beautiful office

To apply, email us at jobs@getclever.com. Send us one or more things from [resume, github profile, recent side projects, linkedin URL, Stack Overflow profile, etc], and include a note that shows you've taken a look at our APIs (https://getclever.com/developers/docs) - for example, what's the average number of students in a section in our sample data set?

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we can help!).
This is great, but there isn't any indication of what units the max filesize is using. Kilobytes or megabytes?
I'm curious to see what happens to Amazon FPS if these product based crowd-funding apps take off. We may be in for a bit of a Paypal style crackdown debacle.

I actually spoke with the Kickstarter guys back in 2009 when I was considering branching off their idea specifically for product based ideas, thinking that it could be "Amazon for stuff that doesn't exist yet".

We all agreed that the idea should happen, but Kickstarter didn't want to do it for two reasons:

1. Their goal is to help artists succeed. They're artists themselves, and the guy who started the site's been working on this for years. It means a lot to them to help the little one-man filmmakers.

2. The risk in having products that aren't delivered on time, in the same form as envisioned, or aren't even completed was just too high. They were terrified of having a backlash of backers who thought they were purchasing a product when in fact the transaction is structured as a donation.

The second one is what makes me worried. What happens if, worst case scenario, Pebble goes bankrupt without producing any items? Who takes the hit there? Is it Amazon, Pebble, Kickstarter, or the backers? It isn't clear yet because we haven't had a high-profile failure yet. But it's only a matter of time.
Thanks for that Scott, I've never heard of TCE -- learn something every day reading HN.

Just did a quick comparison (SBCL) between the above and the textbook version:

(defun sum (list)
(if (null list) 0
(+ (car list) (sum (cdr list)))))

This version quickly dumped Heap Exhaustion. The LABELS version does not, and can handle summation over lists much faster as well.

What does this mean? TCE only applies applies to local calls, therefore we should never write a "raw" recursive function? (which is a tad more elegant, imo). I haven't delved into TCOs deep enough to understand, but I had hoped that a smart compiler would be able to optimize the latter?
The Art of Shopping Without Shopping
That's awesome -- so with them publishing this style guide, are they trying to reach out to the Lisp community for recruitment purposes?
Something funny happened when I tried to share this on G+ (screenshot - http://goo.gl/VK404). Suggest the creators remove that hidden Latin div.
That's deprivation, not desperation. You have to be afraid you'll be homelss next week if you don't find a way to make some money this week. That's the only desperation thats likely to really work.
Oops! Sorry, bytes
Thank you! We are no PR experts, this took on a life of its own.
I Write, Therefore I Think
Twitter runs a whole range of different technologies, as you can see from their Github page [1]. Much of their performance-sensitive code is Scala, but they also run Python, Ruby, C, and Javascript tools.

Their front-end, however, remains Ruby. The link you posted is just about search infrastructure.

[1]: http://twitter.github.com/
I think they thought this through. They probably realized they couldn't own all of crowd funding. Wouldn't it be weird seeing a "Fund my new convenience store" on kickstarter. Instead they do own creative projects, which is brilliant because that's where innovation happens.
Appears this may be a retina mbp thing...
I'm definitely toward the novice end of the spectrum, but GAE scares me with how tightly coupled you can get to it, especially if you use libraries they provide.

It took a while, but I really like Heroku's workflow so far and I feel like I have to jump through a lot less hoops. For me, it's the perfect middle ground between buying and admining some ubuntu VM somewhere and GAE's deploy and hope it works style.
If you include how much your salary, bonuses, equity and health care costs the business, does it change your calculations?
This is great, but I wish they'd take it one stage further. At the moment, the first example they give (monolithic let) is pretty idiomatic and readable. The transformation from one to the other is pretty automatable. So for most cases, why not just put a macro on top? e.g. defgraph-asfn

Storm requires some manual intervention because you need direct control over how things are distributed.
He did not pay to have an Instapaper app developed for Android, the company that developed it did so on their own dime and he only gets a cut of the sale price.

People keep mentioning a web option, but Marco just has to use Newsstand on iOS and not care about billing, logins or what have you. He does some of these things with Instapaper, so he would have a good idea of the time and hassle involved.
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I have done good. =D Laughing is healthy.

I probably shouldn't have phrased the statement as I did. What I meant was projects that are _potentially_ open to anyone, but which are highly selective about who is allowed to contribute.
It'd make an excellent open source tool.
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Don't just count every hour, make every hour count.
So for 30 MB I should put in 30000000?
Watching this video makes me wonder if Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" is more worthy of study. There was so much controversy about the book and Wolfram's claims, that I didn't bother with it.
Yeah, the definition of desperation seems a little odd to me. When I was doing my startup, having money to hang out with friends was a non-issue, because I had no friends.

(FWIW, I've done an experiment on myself similar to this but more extreme: I forbid myself from having a social or romantic life while working on my startup, so that I was doing basically nothing except working and reading startup blogs. My results were that I made myself hella insecure, nearly drove myself crazy, and my startup failed anyway. But I did learn a lot about myself and what I wanted, did some cool side projects, and improved my programming chops enough to get into Google, so it wasn't a total loss.

Even that I wouldn't really equate with being "desperate", which I usually equate with not knowing whether you'll have food or a roof over your head at the end of the week.)
Of course, web standards don't oblige browsers to not have features that aren't in the standard (it would be a harsh world if they did!).
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تسجيلات البكالوريا 2013
موقع التسجيلات لشهادة البكالوريا 2013
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If someone came up with a specific method of embedding a physical watermark in infills which was easily detectable via nondestructive methods (i.e, without sawing the object in half -- perhaps something that would leave a pattern on X-ray or ultrasound?), but which didn't significantly affect the model's density, that would be nifty and likely patent-worthy. (In the best possible way: it'd necessarily be innovative, and would only cover the specific method described.)

The method described in the patent, on the other hand, is largely uninnovative -- it simply describes a "phone-home" licensing scheme. It doesn't even appear to describe the "object code" as being encrypted, which would make it rather trivial to bypass.
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Feedback would be awesome!
Richard Branson's autobiography is filled with many examples of self-created desperation.

See http://sivers.org/desperate

and http://sivers.org/desperate2
the link to your paper is broken
Steve. He's a good guy.
At least you don't lose access to LWN just because you upgraded your OS or switched platforms.
In previous decades, yes, but it's moved substantially from that view to more of a world events and analysis.
Well, future, delay and lazy sequences are bolt ons to an eagerly evaluated language. I'm not convinced the laziness is Haskell is worth it, tbh, but its true that you really wouldn't need this project.
Sure, but ...

I think the main differentiator is the degree to which the help is generic—if person X could have been easily replaced by hundreds of others, X was probably not all that crucial to changing-the-world-process-Y even if they provided a great deal of assistance to Y.

For instance, the people who made the food Larry and Sergey ate while hacking late all those nights, had a very direct effect on the creation of Google: they kept the creators alive! But food providers are easily replaceable (cold as that sounds) in most cases, so it seems a little bit silly to say that the delivery guy for Sergey's favorite chinese takeout "changed the world."

So when it comes to VCs, it seems the relevant question is: absent a given VC, how easily could the entrepreneur secure funding elsewhere? A very, very, risky project that requires tons of money may indeed have an extremely difficult time raising enough funding, in which case the role of a VC that "takes the leap" is much more crucial than it might be otherwise. In other cases, VCs may be more akin to interchangeable service providers.
That's what the world needs, a magazine that needs to be "ported".
Sure, I also commented on your post with a link.
Yegge is wrong about this. It is generally accepted in the Common Lisp community that you avoid macros whenever possible. Here's a quote from pg's "Beating the Averages"

"Macros are harder to write than ordinary Lisp functions, and it's considered to be bad style to use them when they're not necessary."
Apples and cucumbers. GAE is a platform as a service; Flask is a framework that can be deployed anywhere.

Unless I'm wrong about GAE...
Awesome feedback re: payment methods, thanks again for sharing!

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Let me know if you want to learn more.

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Putting brakes on ride sharing apps
We all do a ton of projects in our spare time. And not just web stuff. tylermenezes installed a power outlet into his car. I built an XMPP chat bot that learns. vu0tran made a "search engine." And we're all okay with this because it really adds to the environment we're in. We all feel best when we're building a lot. It keeps us learning and thinking. It feels productive, and as long as everything gets done at work, why not?

Also, it's really entertaining watching each other try to make things. I can't wait to see what happens when Vu doesn't get his company-paid lunch this weekend, and he has no money.
I don't think this is true (game consoles notwithstanding). Throughout history, there have been but a few mediums in use at a single time. Most of the time, all these platforms were supported. (Now, it's any number of content distributers on the web, DVD/CD and Blu Ray. 10 years ago, it was DVD and VHS.) The notion of products bound to a specific platform or medium rose primarily with the popularization of consumer computing, and software likely remains the most platform-specific content available.
>It's actually something that makes a lot of sense. A really good idea is pretty much a shitty idea that no one knew could be good. It's kind of like if you hid a diamond that may or may not be inside a huge pool of poop. You ask most people and they'll be like, "Hell naw. I'm not jumping in that big pool of poop".

Your reasoning of good ideas and their implementations are wrong like most people.

If something is a good idea, it DOES NOT mean "everyone would be doing it".

You see, there is a thing called "barrier of entry" to ideas.

If someone has an idea for, say an app, there are a million things to do to proceed with that idea.

They need to learn how to

* design apps

* code apps

* market apps

Or if they want to hire people to do all that, they need to

* have experience hiring people

* have a lot of money, or a lot of experience getting funding (crowdfunding won't work if they have no experience)

* actually, forget this list - if you don't know anything you will die.

There are years of knowledge required to execute an idea, so you really limit yourself to only a handful of people who have the ability to, and thought of the same idea as you. And most of those people will probably not follow through either, so to execute an idea you really need to believe in it.

Now for your challenge, I would suggest you do something a little bit different. Instead of coming up with an idea and going the whole 9 yards with it, you can just leverage other peoples idea, and just make money marketing it. This is known as affiliate marketing.

There are networks (called CPA [Cost Per Action] Networks) where startups or companies plug in their various sales pages for things they offer, and you as an affiliate get people to complete those offers. The most common way to do this is buying ads to those offers.

By doing this, you eliminate all but the marketing work of running a startup. Marketing is almost always what determines if a startup fails or succeeds. You gain experience in marketing, and you can do a lot with the inventions you code.
I didn't mean to imply you wasted any time- you exhibit the one trait that I find exceedingly valuable: the ability to think for yourself. This is way too rare. And so I wanted to help you with some things that you might find useful. (I'd also recommend Atlas Shrugged, there's a reason it's a popular book, and if it's wrong, there's no harm in reading it, right?)

Economics in One Lesson is so cogent that it will, I think, let you absorb a great deal. And then the Creature from Jekyll Island, which is really a history book that reads like a thriller, will let you see how the departure from economics has had an effect on the country-- an effect the most recent version of which you correctly identified. (Which was impressive, frankly, can't tell you how many times people argued with me about house prices between 1998-2007. Sadly, going back to them in 2008-2010 and saying "See, I was telling you this!" didn't earn any kudos for my having called it correctly... I think their worldview is plastic and easily gets remapped by TV news.)

Anyway, the departure from economics is for very sound reasons-- it profits the people who are peddling the bad stuff. But that also means we can profit from it too.

Anyway, I just wanted to give you the books I thought would be most effective for you. I read a lot of investment books when I needed to learn how to invest (Vick's books on Warren Buffett I found particularly interesting-- now I calculate what my return will be before I make the investment. People assume that buying stocks is really risky, but the reality is risk is quantifiable. I can buy a stock and know that I will be able to sell it for a specific price at a specific time-- you can calculate this!)

Anyway, good luck! I admire your datamining-- there's a lot of opportunity for you out there if you keep that up.
For a 'small timer' like me used to VPS or dedicated local servers it's still a bit confusing.

I don't know how much a value it is, but when looking at PAAS options (like openshift, heroku, appengine, etc.), I like appfog's braindead simple pricing: 2gb free, 4gb $100/month, 16gb $380, etc.
Okay, I didn't know that.
I work on ScoreMobile and we're at 79%. Probably over 80% by now.

60% of Pocket users in five days.
http://getpocket.com/blog/2012/09/more-than-60-of-pockets-da...

http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

http://insights.chitika.com/2012/ios-by-device/

The Build & Analyze podcasts (which the author of The Magazine hosts) has talked about it multiple times http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/96

I do appear to have overstated the 80% number but at this point in time but by the end of the year I'd be shocked if it wasn't over 80% based on the rate of adoption and then number of iPhone 5 being sold.